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Social Impact Capital Closes $42 Million To Invest in the ‘Best Ideas in Impact’
Woman-led social impact venture capital firm, which has already invested in two 'impact unicorns,' is supported by some of the most celebrated LPs in the industry
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- Investing
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- Global
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COP26: Climate Threats to Smallholder Farmers Drive New Investments in CGIAR Research, Pushing 2021 Pledges Close to $1 Billion
Facing mounting evidence that climate change will fall hardest on agriculture-dependent regions like sub-Saharan Africa, a coalition of funders at the United Nations climate summit pledged $575 million.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Jeff Bezos Promises $2 Billion To Fix Africa’s Forests and Food After Meeting Prince Charles
The world's second-richest man has upped his pledge to help fund reforestation, and agricultural transformation, in Africa.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Productive Use of Energy in Africa Is Powering Socio-economic Transformation While Offering Investment Opportunities
The programme enables African businesses to harness clean energy to improve incomes, build climate resilience and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Opportunity International and Oikocredit Announce USD $100 Millon Impact Investment Agreement to Advance the Education Sector in Low-income Countries
Opportunity International and Oikocredit announced an innovative, three-year collaboration to increase access to and quality of education in low-income countries
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- Global
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Avoiding the Great Divergence: How Community Investment Trusts Could Help Developing Countries Recover from COVID-19 and Achieve the SDGs
As the global economy gradually recovers from COVID-19, some fear the world is heading towards a “Great Divergence,” in which the recovery gathers momentum in richer countries while leaving developing countries behind. To avoid this outcome, emerging economies will need a surge of investment. To that end, Norman A. Bailey at The City University of New York and Alfred Watkins at the Global Solutions Summit explore why Community Investment Trusts provide an innovative model to finance pandemic recovery while building a foundation for sustainable growth.
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- Coronavirus, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Triodos Launches Renewable Energy Fund Focused on Emerging Markets
The new fund will aim to provide senior debt to utility-scale wind, solar and run-of-the-river hydroelectrical projects.
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- Global
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Kinara Capital Secures $9.3 Million From Invest in Visions GmbH
Classified as an ESG Impact Fund by the European Union, Kinara Capital will further IIV’s microfinance fund mandate of enabling credit access to small businesses.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, impact investing, microfinance